The Australian research cloud (also known as Nectar) has provided free, extended computational capacity to Australian researchers. Instead of tying up your own machine, you can use a virtual machine in the cloud to run your analysis while you keep your own desktop or laptop computer free for other tasks. The research cloud also allows you to gain access to resources with computational capabilities much larger than those of a desktop or laptop computer.

This workshop will introduce you to the Australian research cloud and show you how to gain access to resources.

This is a an introductory workshop only. After attending, attendees should be able to

launch a virtual machine on the Australian research cloud

create public and private keys for use with their virtual machine

log in to their virtual machine

Attendees need to bring their own laptops to work on during the workshop.

If you are bringing aWindowslaptop, you will need to have already downloadedPuTTYandPuTTYgen. Get both executable fileshereand download them to your desktop.